TEFL Reviews

This unit made me re-think what my teaching experience could be like...

This unit explained classroom management and all the moving parts that go into properly managing a classroom correctly or at least to the best of your ability...

This unit provides a very comprehensive framework for new teachers as well as experienced teachers...

In this lesson I learned intonation, stress, articulation, teaching techniques for the pronunciation of individual sounds and when to teach pronunciation...

This unit is about teaching the productive skills of speaking and writing...

Pronunciation may be the most neglected aspect of English language teaching for many reasons, including lack of confidence in non-native teachers and, sometimes, ignorance of the phonetic matter for native teachers...

This unit covered the future tenses...

This unit provided numerous theories, methods of teaching, explanations of stages, and techniques to use, while administering each stage...

This unit is talking about teaching productive skills--speaking and writing...

This Unit focused on conditionals and listed the zero, first, second, third and mixed conditional forms that could be made...

Unit 13 focused on teaching pronunciation and phonology...

Similarly to the previous one this lessons focuses on the two skills: speaking and writing, the two productive skills...

I had not heard of Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) until this unit, so the lesson planning ideas and ways of using IWBs that were provided was valuable information to me...

This unit covered teaching Phonology and Pronunciation to students...

• Direct speech versus reported speech o Present simple- past simple o Present continuous- pat continuous o Present perfect- past perfect o Present perfect continuous- past perfect continuous o Past simple- past perfect o Past continuous- past perfect continuous o Will- would o Past perfect- past perfect o Past perfect continuous- past perfect continuous • Zero conditional- actions and facts that are irrefutable • First conditional- talks about a real situation that is possible once the condition is satisfied • Second conditional- hypothetical situation o If I won the lottery, I would travel the world...

I learned the five qualities of a good teacher...

This unit covered teaching etiquette, including how to use body language, and eye contact in the classroom to ensure the most productive learning environment...

In this unit I have learnt about lesson planning and how it is important to plan lessons before hand but also be flexible...

Despite speaking and writing equally important, in my observation speaking requires more motivation and encouragement compared to writing...

In this unit it shows how teaching stress, intonation and rhythm assists the pronunciation of English words...

This unit covered the subject of Teaching Receptive Skills...

Once you start reading about pronunciation and phonology and br era making it down into a simpler concept, it becomes easier to understand...

In this unit the focus is on a particular aspect of teaching: how to manage the classroom...

Certain types of considerations should be kept in mind when teaching certain groups...

The unit focuses on the relationship between the teachers and students...

This unit focused on the roles of both the teacher and learner, detailing characteristics of what makes a good example of each...

Throughout unit one of this course I have acquired a more broad understanding of an English teacher’s role in the classroom...

This unit has taught me how essential it is to break down different parts of speech in order to teach better...

I was already quite familiar with lesson planning from my Bachelor of Education training, however I found the information in Unit 9 invaluable...

This unit was about receptive and productive skills...

This unit briefly discusses of the 8 main types of parts of speech: noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjections...

Unit 12 introduces reasons and techniques for teaching speaking and writing in the TEFL classroom...

It was good to learn about the use of the course book and that this doesn't have to be the be it and end all when it comes to the teaching base for your lesson...

Even though this unit reviews the most basic forms of English grammar, it proved very useful in detailing parts of speech that may not be used frequently by teachers who work with students above the beginner stage...

Unit 7 focuses on how to teach the English language to learners...

I have found that it is normally easier for me to recognize improvement in learners when they are beginners...

In this unit I have learnt about different English language teaching theories, methods and techniques existing around the worlds...

This unit beginning with modal auxiliary verbs was pretty straight forward the example box of all the different uses, present-future and past was quite helpful in understanding...

This unit was a good grammatical refresher for me...

This unit was very useful as I learned that modal auxiliary verbs can be used to control or express different degrees of normality i...